Venus and Adonis
Excerpt from Shakespeare's poem "Venus and Adonis":
Call it not love for love to heaven is fled
Since sweating lust on earth usurp'd His name.
Under whose simple semblance man hath fed
upon fresh beauty blotting it with blame,
which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves
As caterpillars do the tender leaves.
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain
but lust effect is tempest after sun.
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.
Lust's winter comes, ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not, lust like a glutton dies,
Love is all truth, lust full of forged lies
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